Victoria Beckham ‘humiliates’ Meghan Markle
The former Spice Girl has delivered a blow to the Duchess of Sussex ahead of the upcoming debut of her make-or-break Netflix show.
This is the tale of two TV series.
Both are made by women who know their way around a spreadsheet and a Louboutin heel and are painfully au fait with the, at times, sharpened claws of the British press.
Both women have previously tried, and only moderately succeeded, at climbing the very greasy Hollywood pole.
And both women have a new Netflix series – but only one has just come in for the golden haloed, VIP treatment by the streamer while the other has just been mocked and overlooked. (Oxymoronic, you say?)
Last week the annual Next on Netflix showcase was held in Los Angeles to hype up their big shiny new releases for 2025 and to tax deduct ahi tuna sliders and top-shelf mezcal.
There, in the city’s famed Egyptian Theatre, in front of bigwigs from the streamer, stars like Tina Fey, Ben Affleck, and a legion of journalists, Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were openly mocked – while their former pal Victoria Beckham was enjoying all the cheesy boosterism the streamer had to offer.
The details. We start with comedian John Mulaney who, in front of an auditorium of people who can probably move and shake LA more than the San Andreas Fault, quipped,
“Not since Harry and Meghan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan.”
The line was met with “snickering” and a few “whoa” from the audience, the Daily Mail has reported.
A source who was at the showcase told the Mail: “It was shocking to me that Netflix would seemingly allow Meghan and Harry to be ridiculed at such a prestigious event.
The head honchos were all there. It really felt like Netflix don’t give a damn.”
That Mulaney felt he had licence to go after the former sacred cow Sussexes is newsworthy enough, but it gets worse for Harry and Meghan.
When she took to the stage for her turn, Netflix’s chief content officer Bela Bajara did not mention a single current or former Sussex project, including the duchess’ forthcoming entertaining series With Love, Meghan.
During the portion of Bajara’s presentation where it would have been natural to include With Love, as she was talking up Netflix’s new reality content like a new Eddie Murphy documentary and a show about Dallas Cowboys NFL, it was instead blanked, according to reports.
Nor did the glossy PR brochure put out for the event include reference to With Love, which will be out in a matter of weeks.
However, you know who did come in for some love during the event?
Why none other than Victoria, with Netflix banging on, reportedly, about their “excitement” about her new untitled docu-series including playing the audience a secret squirrel 90-second clip.
If, as Gore Vidal said, “every time a friend succeeds, I die a little,” what about when it’s a former friend?
For all of those playing along at home and who are well and truly abreast of the Sussex multiverse, Victoria was, of course, formerly pally with Meghan until she and her husband David Beckham and the Sussexes fell out.